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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

These firms aren't replacing people with AI, they're cutting wages to fund building data centers because financing is starting to dry up.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

There is going to be a boon in jobs to fix the absolute mess that this is making.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

But not for a long time and not before these buffoons and the government have completely destroyed the economy

[–] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

"Actually Indians"

The hiring practices of these companies show that AI is just a cover to the massive offshoring of labour. We've reached east indias company levels of wage theft overseas and domestically, and it will only get worse unless we decouple from the US economy.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 29 points 20 hours ago

"Quarterly earnings are down. How do we make number go up so shareholders don't riot?"

"Lay off a bunch of people."

"Well, yeah, but that'll look bad. We'll have to spin it somehow."

"Two words: 'A' 'I'."

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 12 points 17 hours ago

I fucking hate jack welch

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 28 points 21 hours ago

Zuckerberg, in contrast to Gale, has said outright that AI is making some hiring unnecessary. “We’re starting to see projects that used to require big teams now be accomplished by a single very talented person,” he said in the January earnings call.

"AI won't replace us, we're just going to be working more productively with AI" said the useful software engineer, naively parroting Big Tech's corporate PR.

Everyone should be reading Marx.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 20 hours ago

Nadella is mid-transformation into Megamind.

[–] Darthcapi@lemmy.ml 4 points 21 hours ago

Some men should not be bald. Also, the background looks like it’s from the lawnmower man movie. And also, thanks for hating workers